I do know an Adam Smith. He makes darned fine stuff for renfaires and conventions. I have no idea if he has an invisible hand. (But I've heard rumours...)
Good, I was trying for obscure, but not too obscure. Even if the victim doesn't realize that he's been given an intellectual wedgey, other people do, and point.
This might be a minor character flaw, but I like to think of it as one of my endearing qualities.
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger" I always wished Nietzsche was alive today so that I could break his legs and see how much stronger that made him.
Nyah-hahaha! Another uberan legend! In fact, the insperation for the Autobahnen happened when Dr. Fritz Todt, Hitler's superintendent of roads, visited the US in the 1930's and saw the "parkways", turnpikes and Interstates.
Ah, so tens of thousands of years away instead of tens of years away?
Eh, show me an engineering project that's used them. Until then, it's more "magic business beans" (I like the current IBM commercials! They're still the deposed evil empire, but I like the commercials.)
Something as easy as fusion power has remained 20 years away for fifty years now. Until you can buy it or make it, it's a science project, not engineering. (I'd worry about the stability of the composite matrix over time, radiation and stress, but that's just me.)
I'll say it again: we need a new space transportation system within ten years.
Beanstalks are a nice idea, but scaling up from a centimeter to 100,000 KM is a few orders of magnitude, plus other things we might not be aware of yet might cause trouble. (I'm sure that we knew all about bridge building in 1940. Or did we? I doubt tidal resonance would ever be a problem, right?)
I should add more emoticons, I certainly didn't see it as an attack. ("Attack? That's not an attack. Now this is an attack..":^) Thanks for the heads-up.
Trivia: One reason that Eisenhower was so big on highways was that he was the young officer in charge when the US army did a test in 1919 to see if it was possible to send a convoy of trucks from from Camp Meade Maryland to San Francisco. Only just. The trip took two months at an average speed of less than seven miles an hour!
Urban Legend? Heh, I bet you feel silly if you read my reply to myself and checked the links. (*I* felt pretty silly for never thinking to try Google.) For my next trick, I'll track down the Thorncliff race-track also mentioned in my Honeywell company history book. (I wonder if I should start with Google? Does it worry anyone else that one single web tool is so incredibly useful?)
Nah. When landing. a spindizzy tends to make its own hole. (Until someone makes nano cables in industrial quantity, spindizzies aren't more than a few orders of magnitude more unlikely. "Okay, first we need to discover a new law of physics...";^)
Great skiing. Toronto. I'm sorry, I can't force those two concepts into the same place in my brain at the same time. (Living in Vancouver and Montreal has perhaps spoiled me.)
I finally thought of checking Google for the Leaside airfield. That didn't take very long! Not quite where I figured it was. Quite a few mentions of it here, here and here.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to follow that Lost Rivers link. If I'm not back in a while, don't bother. Gollum!
Thanks, I found it interesting. (And so did a moderator, narf!) So far as I know, Toronto only has one real "lost" station, Bay St. Lower. (The Queen St one was to be a street car station.) There's rumours of others, but there's always rumours! The Bay St. Lower station still gets good use as a film location simulating New York.
Don't just stop with abandoned airfields. Some times it's interesting to find out where airfields used to be. In Toronto, I bumped into a couple of references to a Leaside airfield. Long gone, and about the only place that I can think of were it was is the East York Town Centre (shopping maul). If I can ever track down exact references, I might suggest to the mall people that a plaque or photo might make a nice display. Hmm, there's people alive who must remember where the airfield was.
And then there's the US Interstate highways with mandated straight stretches to allow landing planes, but that hardly counts.
Sure, what's a mere 800 Kms against the awesome power of the plot?:^) Mind you, if I wrote a book, it'd probably be in Toronto, and if Toronto needed to be on the equator, so what! That's why James Blish invented spindizzies. (But I'd probably leave Scarborough behind to freeze.)
Sri Lanka was to get it as close to Arthur C. Clarke as possible
And if you read the author's notes, he shifted Sri Lanka's location for the purposes of the story. (Couldn't find the book, or I'd tell you exactly how much.)
The people who retouch frames of films probably make good salaries but not extravagant ones, for all practical purposes are living on another planet than people like Valenti or the movie stars.
It's definitely the movie stars and especially Jack Valenti who are living on another planet from the rest of us. (Did you think that Planet Hollywood was just a restaurant/bar chain?)
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And because it doesn't have a girl on page three like the Sun! ;^)
I do know an Adam Smith. He makes darned fine stuff for renfaires and conventions. I have no idea if he has an invisible hand. (But I've heard rumours...)
This might be a minor character flaw, but I like to think of it as one of my endearing qualities.
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger" I always wished Nietzsche was alive today so that I could break his legs and see how much stronger that made him.
I'd challenge you to a coding duel at dawn, but I think I'll just let Adam Smith's invisible hand bitch-slap you silly.
Dream on.
Oddly enough, penis extensions are the most popular plastic surgery operation in the UK for males.
Nyah-hahaha! Another uberan legend! In fact, the insperation for the Autobahnen happened when Dr. Fritz Todt, Hitler's superintendent of roads, visited the US in the 1930's and saw the "parkways", turnpikes and Interstates.
Eh, show me an engineering project that's used them. Until then, it's more "magic business beans" (I like the current IBM commercials! They're still the deposed evil empire, but I like the commercials.)
Something as easy as fusion power has remained 20 years away for fifty years now. Until you can buy it or make it, it's a science project, not engineering. (I'd worry about the stability of the composite matrix over time, radiation and stress, but that's just me.)
I'll say it again: we need a new space transportation system within ten years.
Beanstalks are a nice idea, but scaling up from a centimeter to 100,000 KM is a few orders of magnitude, plus other things we might not be aware of yet might cause trouble. (I'm sure that we knew all about bridge building in 1940. Or did we? I doubt tidal resonance would ever be a problem, right?)
Trivia: One reason that Eisenhower was so big on highways was that he was the young officer in charge when the US army did a test in 1919 to see if it was possible to send a convoy of trucks from from Camp Meade Maryland to San Francisco. Only just. The trip took two months at an average speed of less than seven miles an hour!
Urban Legend? Heh, I bet you feel silly if you read my reply to myself and checked the links. (*I* felt pretty silly for never thinking to try Google.) For my next trick, I'll track down the Thorncliff race-track also mentioned in my Honeywell company history book. (I wonder if I should start with Google? Does it worry anyone else that one single web tool is so incredibly useful?)
Is that anywhere near Climax Michigan?
Like Red Square in Moscow? :^)
Great skiing. Toronto. I'm sorry, I can't force those two concepts into the same place in my brain at the same time. (Living in Vancouver and Montreal has perhaps spoiled me.)
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to follow that Lost Rivers link. If I'm not back in a while, don't bother. Gollum!
Thanks, I found it interesting. (And so did a moderator, narf!) So far as I know, Toronto only has one real "lost" station, Bay St. Lower. (The Queen St one was to be a street car station.) There's rumours of others, but there's always rumours! The Bay St. Lower station still gets good use as a film location simulating New York.
I think we just ran over that page. :^)
And then there's the US Interstate highways with mandated straight stretches to allow landing planes, but that hardly counts.
That all rather depends on where you're sitting while doing your pr0n surfing, doesn't it? :^P
Sure, what's a mere 800 Kms against the awesome power of the plot? :^) Mind you, if I wrote a book, it'd probably be in Toronto, and if Toronto needed to be on the equator, so what! That's why James Blish invented spindizzies. (But I'd probably leave Scarborough behind to freeze.)
There's just no pleasing you anonymous cowards. Sorry if I didn't say "MOD PARENT UP, FUNNY!", but that's just so lame.
And will these elevators have washrooms? It's a long trip, and I doubt the people on the ground would like the "bombs away" method of waste disposal.
And if you read the author's notes, he shifted Sri Lanka's location for the purposes of the story. (Couldn't find the book, or I'd tell you exactly how much.)
It's definitely the movie stars and especially Jack Valenti who are living on another planet from the rest of us. (Did you think that Planet Hollywood was just a restaurant/bar chain?)
But .. watch out for that pool. That one! Right in front of .. oh well, too late.